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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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Excerpt: A Start in Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Sarrasine by Honore de Balzac, translated by Clara Bell and others.

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into t...

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Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Excerpt: Louis Lambert was born at Montoire, a little town in the Vendomois, where his father owned a tannery of no great magnitude, and intended that his son should succeed him; but his precocious bent for study modified the paternal decision. For, indeed, the tanner and his wife adored Louis, their only child, and never contradicte...

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...Excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hier...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ocratic portion of the community. It was like Paris when the audience of a theatre disperses. Certain persons who talk much of poesy and know noth- in... ...lic, apostolic, and Roman religion is still erect in Brit- tany and in the ancient duchy of Alencon. Faith and piety admit of no subtleties. Mademoise... ...hat “little Church,” sublime in its or- thodoxy, which was to the court of Rome what the Ultras were to be to Louis XVIII. The abbe, more especially, ... ...this:— Under the secret inspiration of du Bousquier the idea of building a theatre had dawned on Alencon. The henchmen of the purveyor did not know th... ...or this episcopal salon; she dreaded the cold look he might cast over that ancient din- ing-room; in short, she feared the frame might injure and age ...

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...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

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...Excerpt: At the very outset of the writer?s literary career, a friend, long since dead, gave him the subject of this Study. Later on he found the same story in a collection published about the beginning of the present century. To the best of his belief,...

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...The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electroni... ...The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic C... ...mes Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a public... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Elixir of Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penns... ...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ke to pay him a life annuity on the faith of a chill, or let a house to an ancient lady for the term of her natural life! Would they be for resuscitat... ...gain for Cashmere shawls for their wives, as they go up the staircase of a theatre, or think of going to the Bouffons, or of setting up a carriage; wh... ...- neath his own roof, with no more scandal under it than if he had been an ancient country parson. Occasionally he would take wife and son to task for... ...y out to the letter the obligations imposed upon the flock by the Court of Rome. Indeed, he was never so well pleased as when he had set the courtly A...

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...The T wo Brothers by Honore de Balzac T ranlated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... to bed only a few moments before him. Occasionally, the pair went to some theatre, occupying one of the ministerial boxes. On those days, they dined ... ...ce little made dishes; yet, fond as she was of eating, she also adored the theatre and cher- ished a vice which she wrapped in impenetrable mystery— s... ...tudios. Into these dens they enter rapins, but they may come forth prix de Rome. The transformation does not take place without extraordinary uproar a... ..., I should be as happy as the Emperor is to have given himself the King of Rome. Well, you are mistress of your child’s fate. Go your own way, madame;... .... But these testimonies both assign a much lesser age to the city than its ancient antiquity demands. In fact, the excavations lately undertaken by a ... ...g to the researches of this an- tiquary, like other cities of France whose ancient or modern autonym ends in “Dun” (“dunum”) bears in its very name th...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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...Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Seri... ...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...as become old-fashioned— was a girl of ten or twelve in the chorus of some theatre, more particularly at the opera, who was trained by young roues to ... ...on Delorme to the sixteenth, Imperia to the fifteenth, Flora to Republican Rome, which she made her heir, and which paid off the public debt with her ... ... natural. I met him by chance, three months ago, at the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre, where I went one day when I had leave, for we had a day a week at ... ... to set against a woman, just as the Dutch use a diamond to cut a diamond. Rome at the height of its power yielded to this necessity. And observe how ... ...etus among police agents. The name of Contenson, alas! hid one of the most ancient names of feudal Normandy. “Well, there is something like ten thousa... ...of sunshine. The Baron, a clerk by the time he was twelve years old in the ancient house of Aldrigger at Strasbourg, had never set foot in the world o...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electro... ...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...y of Medea. The captain saw the placard, and did not fail to repair to the Theatre Francais that evening, to see the celebrated actress in her mytholo... ... well-doing. We know nothing of the civic virtue that led the great men of ancient times to serve their country in the low- est rank whenever they did... ...olidity, which added to the old-world appearance of the buildings with the ancient trees that stood about them, and the growth of plant life on the ro... ...later day, had given it back its true poetry by adapting it for the French theatre and putting it into the mouth of a page, who pours out his heart to... ...way of the Roman for several centuries. The Emperor had ceased to dwell in Rome when the Eternal City fell into the hands of barbar- ians. When the co... ...y that man; and it appeared that he was some connec- tion of Napoleon’s at Rome, for the Emperor claimed suc- cession there for his son. “So, after hi...

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electroni... ...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... undertook in this direction a book (much too long) on the era of imperial Rome. If it had not been for the French Revolution, criticism applied to hi... ...by the same sentiment. At this epoch Venice had the commerce of the world; Rome had its moral govern- ment; Italy still reigned supreme through the po... ...ded France and the late scene of the mar- riage festivities had become the theatre of a cruel war. At the moment when Charles V . was put to flight, l... ...erine dé Medici, agreeing in this with her daughter- in-law, had allowed a theatre to be made of the great hall (afterwards arranged for the Parliamen... ... Ecco!” “You are right as to yourself, Albert; for they have given you the ancient title and duchy of de Retz.” “Now listen to me,” replied his brothe... ... many great and unknown kings, the rulers of this science, I stand for the ancient theories, not the new. I believe in the transforma- tions of matter...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Pro and con monsieur de manerville, the father, was a worthy Norman gentleman, well known to the Marechael de Richelieu, who married him to one of the richest heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The...

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...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic... ...The Marriage Contract by Honore de Balzac Translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Cl... ...ate Electronic Classic Series Publication The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pen... ...by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...apparent assumption which they create, Paul was bored to death among these ancients, unaware that the connections of his youth would eventually secure... ...e made of the ashes of I know not how many unknown and pulverized Londons, Romes, Venices, and Parises, I would write a book on mod- ern marriages mad... ...ication of his deeds to his clerks; he is the notary who goes to balls and theatres, buys pictures and plays at ecarte; he has coffers in which gold i... ...o you all happiness. Amuse yourself; continue your habits of luxury; go to theatres and operas, enjoy society and balls; I leave you free for all thin...

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...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

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... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... you lent enchantment to one of those evenings which are rest after seeing Rome. You do not know, perhaps, that most of our professors live on Germany... ...r of a large, newly-build house, standing on part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original s... ...as very happy. The girl had one of those voices that make the fortune of a theatre; I can only describe her by saying that she is a Duprez in petticoa... ...e that she is the illegitimate child of a rich Jew banker. The life of the theatre, and, above all, the teach- ing of Jenny Cadine, Madame Schontz, Ma... ...ribuna, and Saint Luke painting the Virgin ’s portrait in the Accademia at Rome, have not the charm of the Portrait of Leo X., and of the Virgin at Dr... ...others, had kept their shop still in the Rue des Mauvaises-Paroles, in the ancient Hotel Langeais, built by that illustrious family at the time when t...

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...hapter 1 Exposition. Notwithstanding the discipline which Marechal Suchet had introduced into his army corps, he was unable to prevent a short period of trouble and disorder at the taking of Tarragona. According to certain fair-minded military men, this intoxication of victory bore a striking resemblance to pillage, though the marechal promptly suppressed it. Order being r...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penns... ...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Juana by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...no sound and came upon no indica- tion which revealed her presence in that ancient building. Supposing that she was the only daughter of the old coupl... ...em the cassock, gown, and sword. An Imperia built I forget which church in Rome in a frenzy of repentance, as Rhodope built, in earlier times, a pyram... ...e old Spanish honor, pure and spotless, which filled the precincts of that ancient house. Dona Lagounia had no child, and she was only too happy to ob... ... so truly does it recall the energetic diction of the father of our modern theatre. Yet the poet was forced to sacrifice it to the essentially vaudevi... ...hat at the moment when they entered the avenue a crowd just issuing from a theatre was passing at the upper end of the street. The cries of the dying ...

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...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if he were tracking ...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...n Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ned by the Institut at the time of the re-establishment of the Academie de Rome; he was M. Sylvain Pons, in fact—M. Sylvain Pons, whose name appears o... ... was now ending his days as the con- ductor of an orchestra in a boulevard theatre, and a music master in several young ladies’ boarding-schools, a po... ...ost defies the ambitious modern scientific investigator. In the second—the ancient Egyptians (we are told) invented incu- bator-stoves for hatching eg... ...isible sun called Vocation. To resume. The Government sent Sylvain Pons to Rome to make a great musician of himself; and in Rome Sylvain Pons acquired... ...s still composing, on scanty pay, for his own orchestra or for neighboring theatres. And yet, the worthy man did justice to the great masters of our d... ....—”And you, Mademoiselle Cleopatre!—attention!” she continued, tapping the ancient fowl on the beak. Then Mme. Fontaine began to think; for several se...

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...Excerpt: The talisman towards the end of the month of October 1829 a young man entered the Palais-Royal just as the gaming-houses opened, agreeably to the law which protects a passion by its very nature easily excisable. He mounted the staircase of one of the gam...

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...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...The Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...arch of diversion, for which they pay as they pay for the pleasures of the theatre, or of gluttony, or they come hither as to some garret where they c... ... a gambling saloon are not the opening ones. If Spain has bull-fights, and Rome once had her gladiators, Paris waxes proud of her Palais-Royal, where ... ...Etruscan vase? The Latin queen caressed her chimera. The whims of Imperial Rome were there in life, the bath was disclosed, the toilette of a languid ... ...ussian kopeck, a Scottish farthing, a single obolus or sestertius from the ancient world, or one piastre from the new, without of- fering you anything... ...t of virtue thus?” cried Cursy. “Virtue, the subject of every drama at the theatre, the denoument of 46 The Magic Skin every play, the foundation of ... ...least!” “So you want to discount heaven, a thoroughly commer- cial notion. Ancient religions were but the unchecked devel- opment of physical pleasure...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ion Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...hat have come and gone during the last forty years, have tried to tame the ancient families perched aloft like wary ravens on their crag; the said fam... ...meraries that represent rank and fash- ion at stage weddings in third-rate theatres. One of the queerest figures in the rooms was M. le Comte de Senon... ...in Patmos for us, or Belshazzar’s Feast, so that his lordship may see that Rome is still the Magna Parens of Virgil?” The women exchanged smiles at th... ...s marvelous than the other de- pendent invention of printing, was known in ancient times in China. Thence by the unrecognized channels of commerce the...